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Verified official sourceWhat changedMaterial language shifts detected around personal data, privacy, share your, artificial intelligence. 156 new line(s), 135 removed line(s).
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IMDb uses personal information to develop and deploy generative AI models and services (data_use-1). User information may be shared with its parent company, Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries (data_use-2). In the event of business transfers, user information is generally considered one of the transferred assets (data_use-3).
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No cited risk flags — wording is unclearPolicies related to how user data is collected, processed, stored, and shared with third parties. This includes purposes of data use, consent mechanisms, and data retention practices.
IMDb uses personal information to develop or deploy generative AI models and services.
Why it matters: Your personal information may be used to train and improve artificial intelligence models.
In so doing, we use machine learning and artificial intelligence to support and enhance the customer experience across our products and services. This includes using data to develop or deploy our generative AI models and services.
IMDb shares user information with its parent company, Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries.
Why it matters: Your personal information may be shared within the Amazon corporate family.
We share user information with our parent corporation (Amazon.com, Inc.), the subsidiaries it controls that follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice, and as described below.
If IMDb sells or buys other businesses, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
Why it matters: Your personal information could be transferred to a new owner if IMDb sells or acquires businesses or services.
In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the user consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that IMDb.com, Inc. or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Conditions and procedures for canceling services, subscription renewals, and related billing practices.
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No cited billing terms — wording is unclearLess obvious clauses that might have significant implications for users, often hidden in the fine print.
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No cited gotchas — wording is unclearSpecific commitments or features that benefit the user, enhance their privacy, or provide control over their data.
IMDb does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 and will delete such information if discovered.
Why it helps: This protects young children by ensuring their personal data is not intentionally collected and is removed if inadvertently obtained.
We also do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information.
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